I am so glad that you continue to make YouTube content. Easily my top pick for most underrated channel. I sincerely hope the algorithm gives you another boost. Would love to see you hit 10k subs. Well deserved.

0:50 you're so right in how spoiled we were back in the day! We had completely different wrestling games across 3 different platforms! And the only way to play them all was to own all 3 consoles! That kind of competition is what's missing these days..

One of the first wwe games I was able to buy with money from my first job at the gas station

To answer the 'what game used the WWE branding first' question, I'd say it was probably Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth - Wrestlemania X8 had been in development for longer at the time, and the WWF/WWE rebranding occurred so late into this game's production, it would have taken extra time to change everything, so all the WWE branding is relegated to the game's cover and the trademark disclaimer before the developer logos play. The only real change they did to remove a WWF logo was removing the one on the Smackdown fist arena. Hell, a few very early North American covers used the unabbreviated 'World Wrestling Federation' title before changing that to the WWE logo.

And yeah, Austin walked out on June 10th, 2002 (Same day as the game's NA release), so the later international releases (and the US Player's Choice re-release) replaced him with The Rock.

When Jericho unified the titles, they had the old WWF belt and the World Heavyweight (WCW) belt for his entire reign. A few weeks after HHH beat him at WrestleMania X8, they replaced them both with the new Undisputed belt. They then brought back the World title months later, after this game's development cycle (and after its US release). From the release dates and roster, I'm guessing that the game itself was pretty much finalised before they changed the belt so that's why the old one is in the ladder match, but that they had time to slap an image of the new belt on the menu/victory screen. The roster also seems like it was finalised before X-Pac and Eddie Guerrero came back after WrestleMania X8.

Saw  both covers in canada

Blessed be the detour, another banger of a video 🙌🏽🙏🏽

I always like to share the story of how this game was the actual reason I bought a GameCube back in 2002. My friend down the street rented this one Friday and we played it for hours. I suppose I really appreciated the simple controls and the slapstick nature of it. It was just so damn hilarious and to top it off, we'd beat the shit out of the referee which to that point I don't remember a game where you could actually do that (I think WWF No Mercy's 'Guest Referee' mode couldn't be CPU controlled). Just really, really good memories with this one!


Some fun facts:

• My copy of WWF(E) WrestleMania X8 has the WWE logo on the cover art, but there's a WWF Officially Licensed Product sticker on the case laminate

• Here in America, Stone Cold Steve Austin was on the front cover but was switched to the The Rock when the game hit the Players Choice status

• I think Raven being a hidden character was the doing of one of the developers who was a huge fan of his, and wanted his inclusion to be special-- but I can't confirm that

One of my Absolute favorite games

Eddie was released in 2001 and didn't return until april of 2002 so he wasn't going to make the game since he returned too late to be included in this game. The rest were valid but you can create those stars in CAW since their faces are in CAW. The GC discs are small so they can add but so much.

Sucks you lost all of the footage you had but don’t let it stop you!! More wrestling fans will discover and love your content! (Especially with the new game release coming driving the nostalgia for these games up!)

This game singlehandedly switched me to PlayStation

Loved this game. Being knocked out of a move was often frustrating but also pretty cool. The fact that we could hit other characters with the one we were throwing is awesome. If that could be used to better effect  it would be legendary

i would say these games were more closer to the n64 aki titles then smackdown, i think the move interrupting thing was for immersion but your right, here anyways it was kind of annoying. Smackdown games wouldn't have a feature like this until wwe 12 i believe.

I think if I went back and played it now, this game would get old rather quickly. But as a kid I put hours into this game. This was my favorite game to play Hell in a Cell

I still rather play this then the wrestling games on the original Xbox lol

GameCube disk had storage limitations. So they couldn’t include all the superstars.

Kevin Nash was not in WWF Wrestlemania The Arcade game. His last WWF game appearance would have been RAW on SNES/Mega Drive.

Great video man. I thought as a kid it was a fine game for what it was for the GameCube (I didnt get a ps2 until 2006, so the GameCube games were the only way I could play the current wwe games at the time)

Any game with Scott Hall in it, rules.

Any of you guys played this?